These poor fellas at newspaper companies tinkering with the internet had no idea that it was the beginning of the end of their entire industry
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I’m looking to change my health insurance
- hopefully I can get Physical Therapy/Kinesiology/Acupuncture coverage (maybe it will be a more expensive plan, but if it covers these things it will be worth it)
- or something where the process of referrals to specialists doesn’t take months. I hope to nail down my breathing problem. It’s just slowly getting worse I feel
- or maybe just give up and move to a cheaper plan
- LA Care agent said that even though CoveredCalifornia’s enrollment deadline is Jan 31, for off-exchange plans, the deadline is Dec 31 (huh??)
- Current Plan: Health Net Gold $450/month
- LA Care Direct Gold/Plat: $350-$400
- Kaiser Gold/Plat: $410-$460
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i think i lost the USB receiver of my wireless mechanical keyboard :kek~1:
i packaged the keyboard and receiver for the oakland trip
then i thought “thats a dumb idea, the keyboard doesn’t fit in the suitcase”
now i don’t know where the receiver is -
I got my first COVID test ever in April 2021. Is it possible that most of my health problems are due to having caught and recovered from covid sometime in 2020? :PES_HmmSpecs:
Hmm I remember being quite sick for like 4 days in late December 2019 and then a week or two later in January 2020 again for like 4 daysI thought I discussed this possibility with my doctor multiple times in 2020.. ugh will have to ask the new doctor again next week during regular checkupI got my first COVID test ever in April 2021. Is it possible that most of my health problems are due to having caught and recovered from covid sometime in 2020? :PES_HmmSpecs:
I thought I discussed this possibility with my doctor multiple times in 2020.. ugh will have to ask the new doctor again next week during regular checkupI first tried to get a COVID test in January 2021 but my insurance, my doctor and medical group kept tossing me around til I finally was able to get one
Local free testing site: uninsured people only. If you are insured, talk to your doctor
Doctor: we don’t do COVID tests. You need to talk to your medical group
Insurance: talk to your doctor
Doctor: you misunderstood. I didn’t mean your insurance, I meant your medical group
Medical group: talk to your doctor
Doctor: oh you talked to your medical group… Oh ok let’s make the appointment with a lab in Chinatown.
That process took 3 monthswhat I did in the very beginning
looking it up online showed me Walgreens
Turns out it was drive through
I walked up to the window by foot and they were like “you need to be inside a car” -
so this is the California law regarding voter data
> California Elections Code 2194.
> (a) … the affidavit of voter registration information…:
> 3. Shall be provided with respect to any voter …. to any candidate for federal, state, or local office, to any committee for or against any initiative or referendum measure for which legal publication is made, and to any person for election, scholarly, journalistic, or political purposes, or for governmental purposes, as determined by the Secretary of State.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=ELEC§ionNum=2194.it’s pretty broad. It’s used by:
- candidates and campaigns to organize their voter outreach
- researchers to analyze voter behavior patterns, for example see if there’s a race based or geographic trend for parties
- sometimes by campaigns to run “hit pieces”, like for example finding that the Republican Governor’s candidate in 2010 had never voted in her life – not sure how legal this last one would be
but it always needs to be elections related. You can’t use it to stalk your ex, or plan a school reunion, etc. It’s hard to enforce, but in theory, it’s one hair removed from the common definition of “public”. Like to get the data, you need to submit a written request to the state or county office where you sign under perjury (or something like that) that it will only be used for elections.
So this property owner information website that dill used seems to have the correct voter reg data. It looks detailed enough.
This use of the data would not be legal.
The website tried to skirt the issue by meekly putting this disclaimer:
> Voter registration data is public information and sharing this information helps maintain a healthy democracy. However, if you are concerned about your information being shared, you can request that your information be redacted.seems pretty weaksauce to me.
The laws I cited are California’s, but it shouldn’t be too different from state to state
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man i was watching the 626 music video that vic posted
and i had a dumb epiphany
oh yeah there’s chinese people in LA too
:facepalm:
there’s not many chinese people in ktown
but in other neighborhoods there are
so if there’s like 40 young chinese people speaking chinese lined up outside Hangari
that’s not necessarily tourists from china
they could just be from some neighborhood
man i like almost never go to the 626 and it had been erased from my mental map -
i’m getting bombarded with ads from the shitheads who bought the staples center ad. the ad reeks of “we are gonna get em those dumb millenials money – just throw in a spotify and netflix perk into the card and they’ll fall like lemmings”
the ad is so patronizing
“don’t like fees? we don’t either. we don’t have fees”
betthe narrator has a slight russian accent and whoever wrote the ad lines is not fluent in english
probably somewhere in the small print: “definition of “computer” are products listed in the “computer” category of crypto dot com”
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Yeah most machine translations translate word to word and call it a day. (Plus some tricks here and there) They can’t convey the intent of the original because technology is not at that level. The sad thing is most white people in tech just know some European languages (in the case if Europe) or Spanish (in the case of the us) and this word-to-word translation churns out acceptable text for euro-to-euro translation because they share a common latin language ancestor.
So in their eyes it’s omg this is the best thing since sliced bread. And they fire all their translators and switch to computer only. Which is what what some city level govts in the US started doing.
Word-to-word translation comes crashing down when fundamental grammatical structures are different. Whee does that happen? When the languages are far apart. Such as European language with non-european language.
So in the US, south Asians, Arabs, African immigrants, east Asians, pacific islanders get fucked by this shitty translation and the whites don’t have the slightest idea, living in Spanish translation quality bliss.
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idk about this ff7r
i’ve only played ff7, ff8
because back in 1999 a cousin in LA had the PS2
and didnt really touch the series since then
i checked out a couple Windows releases of FF10-12 on Xbox Game Pass but couldnt really get into it
im having trouble getting started on any RPGs at all the past few years
or any games really
Seems like a game that I will have a very hard time adjusting to. I’ve never played games where you control character with one stick and pan the camera with another. I didn’t manage to get used to Nier Automata, so I expect this to be similar -
i ran the keurig
without a cup underneath (to get ahead the 15 seconds it takes to pull up a cup)
and then i forgot about it
so the keurig spilled everything
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